BLOGGING COMMUNITY

The good advantages of online community is that users are able to contact , share their idea , news, matters and communicate with each other through blogging or emails (Berube 2005). White (2006) define the blogging community is a community who interact online within some bounded set of technologies.

According to White (2006), there are three types of bloging community, which are: 


1. Single Blog / Blog centric community


Owned by one owner / organization and make the readers be a part of community commenter although they not able to control the topic.

2. Central connecting topic community


The blog focus on certain topic, and other technologies are supporting the structure of these topic communities

3. Boundaries community


Collection of blogs and blogs readers hotel on platform. It works like forum which have their own discussion board and social network feature

 

Methods to build the Blogging Community (Nikkis 2010) :


Step 1: Read others blog to discover blogs which share the same interest and discover the start point to create a blog as to discuss with readers


Step 2: Leave comments on other blogs and put blog's URL so others can find your blog


Step3: Reply all comments to show people that their comments are appreciated


Step 4: List your blog in directories


Step5: Update your blog daily to give your readers with variety information and keep them longer to keep read it


Step 6: Makes your blog interest in background and its contain for your audiences targeted


Step 7: Start marketing your blog by making signature about your blog link beside the action of visiting and commenting on other blogs.


References:


1.  Bérube , M 2005, 'Blogging back at the Right' , vol. 91, no.5, viewed 24 August 2011, <http://www.jstor.org.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/40252835.pdf?acceptTC=true>.


2. Nikkis 2010, 'How to Build a Blogging Community', eHow, viewed 24 August 2011, <http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html>

3. White , N 2006, 'Blog and Community - launching a new paradigm for online community' , blog posting, 11 September, 24 August 2011, <http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community>.